TO: | Honorable Kevin Bailey, Chair, House Committee on Urban Affairs |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB1052 by Callegari (Relating to requiring warning signs before intersections at which a municipality uses a photographic traffic monitoring system to enforce compliance with a traffic-control signal.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend Chapter 544, Transportation Code, to require a municipality that uses a photographic traffic monitoring system to post signs that would notify drivers that they are approaching an intersection that is monitored by a photographic system. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) would be required to specify the shape, color, dimensions, wording, and reflectorization of the signs.
Currently TxDOT executes Municipal Maintenance Agreements with municipalities operating red-light systems on the state highway system. These agreements suggest that the municipality "should" erect such signs alerting motorists of the automated enforcement system. Passage of the proposed legislation would require a change of this agreement, along with the enactment of rules to incorporate the signage requirements. The agency anticipates it could make these modifications utilizing existing resources.
Source Agencies: | 601 Department of Transportation
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LBB Staff: | JOB, DB
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